manakin

Other forms of manakin

plural

manakins·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about manakin

What does manakin mean?

manakin means "a woman who wears clothes to display fashions". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in manakin?

manakin has 3 syllables: ma-na-kin. The stress falls on "ma".

What is another word for manakin?

Close synonyms include mannequin, manikin, mannikin, fashion model, model. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is manakin a common word?

manakin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.